Upper Level Winds News Today

Here are a collection of analyses depicting the meteorological conditions that fostered some of Thursday’s active t-storms By Tom Skilling (Via Facebook) Moisture within Thursday’s warm, buoyant air mass—which included low 80-degree high temps and low to mid 60-degree dew points indicating moderately “humid” air—ascended into “divergent” upper-level winds at the jet stream level (18,000 […]

Tuesday features scattered showers and thunderstorms as we’re primed for storm development. Turbulent upper level winds out of the south keep us unstable and with a steady supply of warmth and humidity with southerly winds, it won’t take much to see a storm or two develop throughout the day, especially for areas that pick up […]

Two tropical features are being monitored in both the Pacific and Atlantic. Tropical Depression Twenty-E developed on Thursday about 1,000 miles off the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California. According to forecasters, it has a chance of becoming Tropical Storm Ramon before weakening over the open Pacific. In the Atlantic, forecasters are watching an area of low pressure that has developed along a frontal boundary.

It's likely the hurricane season is over.

Of the two disturbances we’ve been tracking, one just north of the Bahamas doesn’t have much chance of development after encountering stronger upper-level winds.

Hostile upper-level winds continue to make life difficult for the Tropical Disturbance known as Invest 96L in the middle of the Atlantic.

The tropical disturbance in the central Atlantic is already producing winds over 40 mph. So the National Hurricane Center will name it if it can pull itself together sufficiently to be categorized as a tropical storm.

People are saying a hurricane or a tropical storm is forming in the Gulf of Mexico this week. Is that true?

Only those in the air but forces on the ground there in iraq. >> for folks just joining us, this aircraft you are looking at this, this aerostat, call it a blimp if you wish, normally tethered. it normally is connected to the earth, to the tower by cables. its become unmoored at the aberdeen proving ground in maryland today. last known location somewhere between pennsylvania and delaware. and we presume headed northbound with prevailing winds. two graphics to get if we can are upper level winds ...

Boston area. it is very, very busy. im wondering if you would be faster on the i-95 corridor today or in that blimp. given the winds. wed have to see. >> well, i was going to say, amtrak, you have the metro regional service and the jersey turnpi turnpike. wilmington, two, theres a delaware and theres a pennsylvania. it would make sense actually given that this thing started from aberdeen that it could fly over both wilmingtons. tom, 16,000, 18,000 feet, i had read in the last 30 minutes that the...